A fully dressed winged goddess restrains a warrior, with helnmet, shield and spear, who is moving away from her. Inscribed in Etruscan ACHLE, Achilles. Hatched ground line and border.

The occasion is not made clear in accounts of Achilles and could be an invention of the engraver, but the involvement of goddesses with heroes was commonplace in Greek epic, though this one cannot be securely identified. A near-replica, mentioned in RA, was also said to be in the Danicourt Collection, but this may be an error. The subject is discussed by E. Zwierlein-Diehl in Festschrift Dirlmeier-Pöschl (1976) 22-3.

5th cent. BC.

19

Onyx scarab.

11x7.

Published: RA 1971, 207, fig. 18.

A collapsing warrior, naked but for his shield, struck in the shin by an arrow, bleeding. Hatched border.

Late 5th cent. BC.

20

Agate scarab.

16x11.5.

Published: RA 1971, 208, fig. 19.

A stooping warrior in a chlamys is stringing his bow. Garbled inscription in the field. Hatched border.

4th cent. BC.

21

Cornelian scarab.

14x11.

Published: RA 1971, 209, fig. 20.

A dressed maenad dances, her head thrown back in ecstasy, holding a lyre and a crooked thyrsos (snake?). Hatched border.

Nearly a globolo style. 4th cent. BC.

22

Cornelian scarab.

12x9.

Published: RA 1971, 209, fig. 21.

Three horses. Line border.

A globolo. 4th/3rd cent. BC.

23

Cornelian scarab.

15x11.

Published: RA 1971, 209, fig. 22.

A man with a stick. Line border.

A globolo. 4th/3rd cent. BC.

24

Cornelian scarab.

10x7.5.

Published: RA 1971, 209, fig. 23.

The heads of a grazing stag and a horse, with a single, body, a wing and two tails. Beaded border.

Possibly Western Greek rater than Etruscan. 4th cent. BC.

25

Agate scarab.

11x8.5.

Published: RA 1971, 210, fig. 24.

A woman, with stippled dress around her legs, looks in a mirror with her other hand behind her head. Hatched border.